Stevie Wonder, Knocks Me Off My Feet | Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶

In the 63^rd edition of Throwback Vibez (2024), we recollect and reflect on “Knocks Me Off My Feet” by Stevie Wonder.

The vibes, the vibes, those Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶! Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 is a column that celebrates awesome songs from the past.  The records that grace this column are older, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re ancient – no fossils 🦴! All genres of music are welcome. In the 63^rd edition of Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 (2024), we recollect and reflect on “Knocks Me Off My Feet”, performed by Stevie Wonder.

Songs in the Key of Life is one of the best albums of all time. It is the crown jewel of the Stevie Wonder discography.  Two number-one hits graced the 1976 LP: “I Wish” and “Sir Duke”.  Even with those giant singles being tough to beat, the non-singles are epic too.  Among the best songs that’s not a single is “Knocks Me Off My Feet” which appears as the seventh track on the first disc of the Songs.  Matters of the heart – L-O-V-E, love – drive the smooth, soulful ballad.

“But there’s somethin’ ‘bout your love / That makes me weak and / knocks me off my feet,” Wonder sings at the end of the verses.  In the chorus, he asserts, “I don’t want to bore you with it / Oh, but I love you, I love you, I love you.” His dedication is lit to the nth degree.  The visions of love are gorgeous, whether it’s “I see us in the park / Strolling the summer days of imaginings in my head,” or, “We lay beneath the stars / Under a lovers’ tree seen through the eyes of my mind.” Ultimately, “Knocks Me Off My Feet” is a sweet, magnificently written, produced, and performed by one of music’s legends.  Approaching 50 years later, “Knocks Me Off My Feet” reminds us that love is a remarkable, beautiful thing. Many artists have covered “Knocks Me Off My Feet” including Donnell Jones, Luther Vandross, and Teddy Swims.

Stevie Wonder // Songs in the Key of Life // Motown // 1976

Stevie Wonder, Knocks Me Off My Feet: Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 No. 63 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Motown; OpenClipart-Vectors, Speedy McVroom via  Pixabay]